New Dance Punk Music: Yellow Dogs

What happens when you take a punk rock attitude, skateboards, street art, and creative and artistic censorship and you mix them together? Well you’d have the life of Yellow Dogs in a nutshell. If you want [...]

Exploring the iLL Mind of Hopsin

For quite a while now, mainstream hip hop has been growing through an identity crisis.  As the most popular music today has been getting more and more rooted in club and dance culture, hip hop has [...]

Going Live: A message from hypetree’s Founder

Creating something from the ground up is hard. Everyone has ideas, and all of those ideas have potential, but to actually make that idea, and make it work – trust me, it’s hard.  There are a [...]

New Music: BAKER

BAKER is here and he’s taking the pop world by storm. But don’t let his name fool you because like he says, “I’m not making fucking pastries.” What he is making is some of the most [...]

New Music: SkyBlew

This week we have one of the south’s hottest and most talented new emcees, Mario Farrow, a.k.a SkyBlew.  SkyBlew represents an excitingly elevated lyricism and varied production style that will hit you hard with lyrical power [...]

R.I.P. Adam Yauch A.K.A. MCA of the Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys MC Adam Yauch, also known as MCA, passed away earlier today due to cancer.  He was 47 years old. Yauch and the Beastie Boys released several classic hip-hop albums in the 1980s and 1990s [...]

New Music: the AUTOMATiON

This band is…uncanny.  The first time I played a song by Canadian indie rockers, the AUTOMATiON, an image of David Bowie playing a set with Joy Division popped into my head.  Part new wave punk, part [...]

SEEDS TALKS TO: VIBRAGUN (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW)

Seattle’s VibraGun drench themselves in fuzz and reverb.  The music is dense and heavy, an all encompassing mood that whirls steadily around the ears and seeps into your bones.  Voices whisper, guitars screech, and the effects [...]

New Music: The Manichean

  Texas is a state that has birthed many of indie rock’s most innovative and subtle acts, and Houston newcomers The Manichean are no exception.  Combining chaotic, sinister math rock with subtle, airy atmospherics and a [...]